Christin Khan is currently flying for the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center right whale aerial survey team based out of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She has previously led right whale aerial surveys with Wildlife Trust and the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies. Christin completed her Master of Science in Biology at San Francisco State University with research on vocal development in harbor seals; her work was published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

{Entanglement} Wart is gear free!!!

Great news!!!

The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies Disentanglement Program with the assistance of the NOAA Twin Otter survey aircraft was able to free the right whale known as EGNO 1140 or "Wart" from her entanglement in fishing gear.

A sighting today by the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies aircraft confirms that she is gear free!!!!